Arushi Vats

A review of "Shadow Circus", a project by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, and curated by Natasha Ginwala (21 April 2022 – 1 May 2022), ...

A review of the exhibition "Living a Dark Night" curated by Paula Sengupta at Gallery Espace (23 February 2022 – 12 March 2022), written...

A poem titled "Every mother a cipher" in response to Zinnia Naqvi's series "Dear Nani", as part of the photo book by Naqvi titled Dear...

A review of the exhibition "The (Pro)found Object", at Vadehra Art Gallery (25 August 2021 – 24 September 2021), written for ART India...

A short story titled "Gufa", published in nether Quarterly, Vol 2, Issue 4 (November 2021).

An essay tracing the tendencies towards the sites, sources and methods of literary adaptation for web series featured on vernacular and...

An essay titled "Exiting the Rehearsal: A Body in Delhi", published in Issue 44: Time of Runway Journal, guest edited by Joel Spring.

An essay on Shweta Ghosh's documentary We Make Film (2021), written for Alternative South Asia Photography Connect. Image: We Make Film...

An interview with Nihaal Faizal and Sarasija Subramanian of Reliable Copy on their curatorial approaches towards building the exhibition...

Catalogue text titled "Not every edible thing is food" for at the kitchen table — an exhibition curated by Reliable Copy, on view at...

A short story titled "Old Gulmohar", published in the thirteenth edition of Hakara Journal. Image: Chameli Ramachandran, Untitled....

An essay on "Anatomy of a Horny Heart", a solo showcase of works by Affan Baghpati at Aicon Gallery, written for The Karachi Collective....

A curatorial essay and wall text authored for Affan Baghpati's solo showcase "Anatomy of a Horny Heart", presented at Aicon Gallery, New...

An essay analysing the development of the Priya comic series (2014 – ongoing), with a focus on its recent efforts to rebrand the...

A short story titled "As People Do", published in the second issue of gulmohar quarterly.

An essay on Pelin Esmer's documentary Koleksiyoncu: The Collector (2002), written for Alternative South Asia Photography Connect. Image:...

An essay on Chirodeep Chaudhuri's photographic survey of public clocks in Mumbai, in Seeing Time: The Public Clocks of Bombay (1996 –...

A review of the online exhibition "Zoya Siddiqui: A distant Place" curated by Arnika Ahldag and Vaishnavi Kambadur for Museum of Art and...

An essay on Parthiv Shah and Jan Breman's study of the destinies of mills and mill workers in Ahmedabad, in Working in the Mill No More...

A review of the online exhibition "Suresh Punjabi – The Business of Dreams" curated by Nathaniel Gaskell and Varun Nayar for Museum of...

An essay exploring objects and memory in three films: Gamak Ghar (2019), Aunty Sudha Aunty Radha (2019), and Raat Akeli Hai (2020)...

A comment on Bakirathi Mani's essay “Archives of Empire: Seher Shah’s Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force” in Unseeing...

A review essay of the photo book Juju Bhai Dhakhwa –Keeper of Memories published by Nepal Picture Library and photo.circle in 2016, for...

A essay on the artworks showcased in "The Constitution of India at 70: Celebrate, Illuminate, Rejuvenate, Defend", an exhibition curated...

A profile on the practice and literary influences of artist Buddhadev Mukherjee written to accompany his solo showcase in the fourth...

Curatorial note written for artist Aban Raza's solo online exhibition "Luggage, People and a little space" at Galerie Mirchandani...

A review of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition "The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989" edited by Ram Rahman...

A review essay on the photo book Dalit: A Quest for Dignity published by photo.circle and Nepal Picture Library in 2018 for LSE...